Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Openstack Folsom cant ping instance/VM

The most annoying bug that I came across when setting up Openstack Folsom was that, after creating the a virtual machine it was not able to reach the metadata service and I was not able to reach the virtual machine.

After days of debugging, I found out that it was not only me that was having the same issue. Finally it was reported as a known bug to the openstack developers.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1091605

The problem seems to be that OpenvSwitch devices have been brought back up after after rebooting. Hence before I upgraded to Grizzily from Folsom, I created the following script and had it running at the boot-up in the network node.